Oracle's father, Wang Yirong

1. The oracle bone is the script of the Shang Dynasty, that is, the earliest history of the mainland with written evidence began with the Shang Dynasty.

(2) Carrier: At that time, people carved the text deed on the tortoise shell and animal bone, and such a text was called the oracle bone

Wen, Oracle is also known as Chewen.

(3) Contents: It is related to divination, so the oracle bone is also known as the oracle bone, that is, the record of divination

Transcription. The Shang Dynasty people were very superstitious, they believed that all things have animism, so whenever they encountered major military events and wars and agricultural affairs, they had to perform divination first, and after divination, the results were inscribed on the tortoise shell and animal bone, which is the oracle bone we see now.

(4) The earliest person to discover the oracle bone in modern times was Wang Yirong, a military scientist in the late Qing Dynasty. At that time, the oracle bone was still used as a traditional Chinese medicine, known as the keel, and Wang Yirong found that there was writing on the oracle bone, and the oracle bone was really in academics

The meaning was discovered, so Wang Yirong was known as the "Father of Oracle", and he was the first person to discover and collect oracle bones.

(5) Wang Yirong had not yet had time to study the oracle bone, and after the Eight-Power Alliance captured Beijing the following year (1900), he was martyred. After Wang Yirong was martyred, the Wang family collected what he had collected during his lifetime in order to pay off his debts

Most of the oracle bones were transferred to his good friend Liu Hu, who selected more than a thousand pieces of lithography from these oracle bones and published China's first work on oracle bones, "Tieyun Hidden Turtle", which was the first book in China to record oracle bones. Liu is believed to be the first person in China to confirm the oracle bone as a Shang Dynasty script and to state the basis.